This Day In European History

2nd December

Events
1697: St. Paul's Cathedral reopens having been rebuilt to Wren's design.
1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor Napoleon I of France by...himself.
1805: The Battle of Austerlitz; an outnumbered Napoleon defeats the combined forces of Russia, Austria and Prussia.
1848: Elections for the President of the Second French Republic select Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of former French Emperor Napoleon I.
1852: The Second Empire begins in France with Napoleon III as Emperor.
1929: Britain's first telephone boxes begin operation.

Births

Deaths
1547: Hernan Cortes, Spanish Conquistador.
1594: Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer.
1719: Pasquier Quesnel, French theologian.
1723: Duc Philippe II d'Orleans, French regent.
1781: Zenon de Somodevilla, Spanish prime minister.
1791: Henry Flood, Anglo-Irish statesman.
1804: Philippe Lebon, French engineer.
1814: Marquis de Sade, French writer.

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